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Year Review 2025

The year in pictures: In our annual review portal you will find all the photos of the most important events of 2025. *All selections are updated monthly.

Obituary 2025 These prominent personalities passed away in 2025.

Obituary 2025

Images of the month January 2025 •Trump's inauguration
•Los Angeles Wildfires
•Golden Globe Awards 2025
•Dakar Rally 2025
•South Korea plane crashes at Muan International Airport
•Tesla Cybertruck explodes in front of Trump Tower
•Terrorist attack on New Orleans
• Canada's Prime Minister Trudeau resigns
•Lindner pelted with foam during appearance
•Jimmy Carter funeral
•Australian Open Tennis
•Hong Kong's overcrowded mini-apartments

Images of the month January 2025

Pictures of the month February 2025 •Protests against the CDU
•Grammy Awards
•Plane crash in Philadelphia
•Denmark becomes Handball European Champion
•Earthquake on Santorini
•Steinmeier visits Saudi Arabia
•Carnival reception at the Federal Chancellery
•Scholz and Merz in a TV debate
•Klingbeil receives the "Order Against the Beastly Seriousness"
•Trial over kiss scandal involving federation boss Luis Rubiales
•Biathlon World Championship
•75th Berlinale
•61st Munich Security Conference
•State ceremony for former Federal President Horst Köhler
•Bundestag election
•Klingbeil new chairman of the SPD parliamentary group

Pictures of the month February 2025

Pictures of the month April 2025 • Volcanic eruption in Iceland
• Honorary award for Margot Friedländer
• Threat situation at schools in Duisburg
• CDU/CSU and SPD conclude coalition negotiations and agree on coalition agreement
• Critical food situation for people in Palestine
• Prime Minister Meloni visits President Trump at the White House
• Harvard sues US government
• Plane carrying Afghan local staff and refugees lands in Leipzig
• Demonstrations after Lorenz is shot by police
• Pope gives Easter blessing “Urbi et Orbi”
• Death and farewell of Pope Francis
• Strong earthquake in Istanbul
• Dead after disco collapse in the Dominican Republic
• Blackout paralyzes parts of Spain and Portugal
• US attacks on Yemen
• Cologne: Handball Cup winner determined at Lanxess Arena
• Helicopter crashes into Hudson River off Manhattan
• CDU Federal Committee
• Tennis pro Rafael Nadal receives “Sporting Icon Award”
• Minister President Söder in India
• Chinese fighters for Russia captured in Ukraine

Pictures of the month April 2025

Pictures of the month May 2025 • Trump's security advisor Waltz leaves government
• Office for the Protection of the Constitution classifies AfD as right-wing extremist
• Exacerbation of the famine in Gaza
• CDU, CSU and SPD sign coalition agreement
• Merz elected chancellor at second attempt
• Conflict between India and Pakistan
• US-American Prevost elected Pope
• Chancellor Merz visits Kiev
• Release of Hamas hostage
• PKK announces dissolution
• Trial against US rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs
• Funeral of Margot Friedländer
• Christian Linder steps down from the chairmanship of the FDP
• Austria wins ESC
• Bavaria celebrates 34th champion and bids farewell to Müller
• Inauguration of Pope Leo XIV
• Mexican navy training ship collides with Brooklyn Bridge
• Denzel Washington receives honorary award in Cannes
• Pope Leo XIV meets J.D. Vance
• Trump unveils new US missile defense "Golden Dome"
• Trump introduces South Africa's president
• Employee of Israel's embassy in the USA killed
• Merz and Pistorius at the formation of the Lithuania brigade
• Prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine
• VfB Stuttgart wins DFB Cup 2025
• Commemorating the fifth anniversary of George Floyd's death
• Acquittal for Austria's former chancellor Kurz
• Solingen attack trial begins
• Liverpool: Car crashes into crowd
• Rush on food distribution center in Rafah (Gaza)
• President Selenskyj in Berlin
• Glacier collapse in Valais
• Trump says goodbye to Musk as advisor

Pictures of the month May 2025

Pictures of the month June 2025 • Poland: Right-wing nationalist Nawrocki wins presidential election
• Baerbock is the new President of the UN General Assembly
• New election in the Netherlands after government collapses
• Chancellor Merz's inaugural visit to US President Trump
• Trump sends National Guard to Los Angeles
• School shooting in Graz
• Poland's government survives confidence vote
• Plane crash in India
• Escalation between Israel and Iran
• “No Kings”: Nationwide protests against Trump
• Arrest after attacks on politicians in Minnesota
• G7 summit in Canada
• Protests against Amazon founder Bezos' wedding in Venice
• Protests against AfD child protection congress in the state parliament
• Wadephul in Ukraine
• Heat in Germany

Pictures of the month June 2025

Pictures of the month July 2025 • Special investigation into the mask affair surrounding Jens Spahn
• Ceremony to mark 70 years of Germany in NATO
• Trial against Christina Block for child abduction
• UNESCO awards World Heritage status to royal castles in Bavaria
• Verdict in the trial against Alfons Schuhbeck
• Defense Minister Pistorius for talks in the USA
• Fridays for Future demonstration against gas on Borkum
• Israel intervenes in Druze conflict
• Fire destroys main stage at Tomorrowland festival
• German-British friendship agreement signed
• End of “The Late Show” on US broadcaster CBS
• Protest at Weidel interview
• Ozzy Osbourne dies
• CSD in Berlin
• Regional train derails in Biberach district
• Lipowitz finishes third in Tour de France
• Laura Dahlmeier has an accident while mountaineering
• Helicopter crash in Saxony

Pictures of the month July 2025

August 2025 • Arson attacks on main railway line in Düsseldorf
• Germany launches aid flights for the Gaza Strip
• Inaugural visit of Finance Minister Klingbeil to Washington
• Germany halts arms exports to Israel
• Florian Wirtz named Footballer of the Year
• Trump places Washington police under federal control
• Journalists killed in attack in Gaza
• Numerous aftershocks in Western Turkey
• Zelensky in Berlin
• Commemorative event for the 64th anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall
• UN agreement on plastic waste fails for now
• Trump and Putin meet in Anchorage, Alaska
• Strikes against the war in Palestine and for the release of hostages in Israel
• Zelensky at the White House and Ukraine summit in Washington
• Former Transport Minister Scheuer charged with making false statements
• Police officer killed in Völklingen
• Commemoration of knife attack in Solingen
• Ukraine celebrates independence
• Former Vice Chancellor Habeck resigns from Bundestag
• New conscription law approved by cabinet
•Merz, Macron, and Tusk visit Moldova
•Shots fired at school in Minnesota
•SCO summit in Tianjin: Xi, Putin and others discuss cooperation

August 2025